Sentence examples for a somewhat tenuous from inspiring English sources

Sahar's performances on the show demonstrate a somewhat tenuous relationship with pitch and rhythm, but she was a crowd favorite.

Dr. Stever had been named to lead the panel in large part because of his four years as science adviser to Nixon — a somewhat tenuous relationship — and Ford.

Sales takes care to locate the fame-obsessed burglars within the context of the time, if occasionally to a somewhat tenuous degree.

And as it turns out, there is even a (somewhat tenuous) home connection: Natalie's grandmother lives next to the de Castros in Yonkers, and Alex goes to Natalie's old school.

The pioneers were the derivatives exchanges: France's Matif forged a somewhat tenuous link with Germany's Deutsche Terminbörse, and later the DTB itself merged with its Swiss counterpart to form Eurex. Eurex, a screen-based exchange, did so well that it became the world's biggest derivatives exchange, taking over from the floor-based Chicago Board of Trade.

For Leibniz tells us in On Freedom (De libertate... 1689?) that he first came to think of the nature of possibilia in terms of fictional worlds, worlds that have existence in a somewhat tenuous sense.

The video is further captioned with a series of somewhat tenuous facts about manspreading, such as that it's most often performed by men with low social status and that "there is a relationship between frequent use of alcohol and the desire to sit with your legs spread".

The most interesting scenario, however, is the case where the unpledged delegates would be sufficient to give a candidate a majority, but his claim to the nomination was somewhat tenuous.

But his position there has always seemed somewhat tenuous, in part because of an assessment that Republicans were dissatisfied with the choices before them.

Moreover, they worry that a strike would strengthen, not weaken, the Iranian leaders' somewhat tenuous hold on their country.

For Ricky Schroder, having a daughter desperate to attend the August premiere of "High School Musical 2" meant pushing his somewhat tenuous Disney credentials.